The coming Civil War in America

[Mexican_Hippie]

I don't hate.

Even if someone attacks me and I have to kill them I don't hate them. Maybe pity, maybe frustration, maybe anger, but not hate.

And after I dispatch them I will still forgive them and pray for their souls. I will love them as I kill them - violently - if necessary.

It's how I roll.

 

[Pilgrim]

I don't hate.

Even if someone attacks me and I have to kill them I don't hate them. Maybe pity, maybe frustration, maybe anger, but not hate.

And after I dispatch them I will still forgive them and pray for their souls. I will love them as I kill them - violently - if necessary.

It's how I roll.

You're scary. Can I be your friend?

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Actually Cowboy Flash is as standup as they get! I'll bet he was still in a foxhole over there when you returned. LOL

Foxhole hell, I was selling him souvenirs when he arrived....

 

[ROGER4314]

Skeeter...Thanks for standing up for me! With the anti Flash peanut gallery around here, I usually blow off negative comments. I have change for a dime in my pocket that means more to me than their opinions do.

Cowboy you're different. I respect you, but how the Hell did you drag me into this anti war flower crap? Back then, I was a vicious and violent man. I thought that problem solving meant smashing the face of anyone who disagreed and I didn't give a rat's ass about you or your CIB. You did your combat and I did mine. All I cared about was fighting, f---ing and partying. Some people hang around with a bad crowd. I ran with the WORST crowd!

I lost a lot of friends in Nam so you weren't the only one who lost because of LBJ's political crap.

What is different now, is that after 33 1/2 years being clean & sober, I see things differently. I stay to Hell away from women because I dislike their drama. Gin Mills spell trouble and I avoid them like the plague. Am I afraid to go to those places? Nope, that ain't it. I don't want that shxt in my life any more. I'm an honest man who tries to avoid violence. Still....don't put a hand on me.....................

I learned about the CIB and have huge respect for it.

I don't drink nor take any form of drug and tried to make amends for the behavior in my former life. I thought that 24 years of teaching might atone for my past life, but I see that it didn't help society much at all. The students didn't give a shxt. Still, there is no room for hatred in my life, now.

SO....like me or don't. That's your choice. Just don't pin crap on me that I didn't do. There are plenty of other things that I'm actually guilty of.....snicker.

Flash

 

[texas skeeter]

I don't hate.

Even if someone attacks me and I have to kill them I don't hate them

OOOH can I use that for my new sigline?

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Skeeter...Thanks for standing up for me! With the anti Flash peanut gallery around here, I usually blow off negative comments. I have change for a dime in my pocket that means more to me than their opinions do.

Cowboy you're different. I respect you, but how the Hell did you drag me into this anti war flower crap? Back then, I was a vicious and violent man. I thought that problem solving meant smashing the face of anyone who disagreed and I didn't give a rat's ass about you or your CIB. You did your combat and I did mine. All I cared about was fighting, f---ing and partying. Some people hang around with a bad crowd. I ran with the WORST crowd!

I lost a lot of friends in Nam so you weren't the only one who lost because of LBJ's political crap.

What is different now, is that after 33 1/2 years being clean & sober, I see things differently. I stay to Hell away from women because I dislike their drama. Gin Mills spell trouble and I avoid them like the plague. Am I afraid to go to those places? Nope, that ain't it. I don't want that shxt in my life any more. I'm an honest man who tries to avoid violence. Still....don't put a hand on me.....................

I learned about the CIB and have huge respect for it.

I don't drink nor take any form of drug and tried to make amends for the behavior in my former life. I thought that 24 years of teaching might atone for my past life, but I see that it didn't help society much at all. The students didn't give a shxt. Still, there is no room for hatred in my life, now.

SO....like me or don't. That's your choice. Just don't pin crap on me that I didn't do.

Flash

Why in the world would I dislike you, got no reason on earth to do so. Besides the only people on this forum I dislike I have told them so publicly and put them on ignore. No need of you getting all riled, not sure you have been following the thread...
Here you go:

"You have to understand.... Ol Flash is/was a product of Woodstock."

I just replied to that and was laughing all the way, go back and read the last 6 or so posts between me and Tex Skeeter. No one is raggin on you, me or anyone else. I do care whether anyone went to Vietnam, I just got drafted, no more no less. In fact of the group of us standing at the Post Officer on 25 Jan '67, almost everyone I knew, I was the ONLY one who went to Vietnam. Even my best friend who I told NOT to volunteer for anything and did and headed off into the Marines as a result, he did not go to Vietnam. He heads out to Japan and works in an office for his 2 years stint.

No it bothers me not, it was an ugly war and a bad war. My father who had been to Vietnam and was a career soldier had grave misgivings on me going to Vietnam, so I decided to not join up and just let the draft make the choice. It did and I went...when I got out of advanced training and I will never forget standing out there in formation as the CO read off names and orders: SMITH, Ft Bumchuck, 30 days leave, etc, etc. Finally I stood there, alone and he walked over to me and said, who did you pizz off, Vietnam and 15 days leave. The ONLY guy in the class that went to Vietnam, you got to be kidding LOL.

FYI: In my circle of friends all about my age not a single one who went to Vietnam and of those that were military which is only a few not one of them had a tour across the pond. Almost every one has at one time taken me aside and said Don, I just want you to know why I did not go in the military and or Vietnam...I stop them and say. You do not need to say anything, no apologies needed.

So keep laughing man, don't care what you did at woodstock LOL

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

You're scary. Can I be your friend?

LOL

Reading it again is does come off kind of creepy. I didn't intend it that way. I just meant that it's really important that we love and forgive people. But that doesn't mean letting them roll over you. Hatred will ruin you on the inside - as humans we gotta learn how to forgive and let things go for our own benefit.

 

[breakingcontact]

LOL

Reading it again is does come off kind of creepy. I didn't intend it that way. I just meant that it's really important that we love and forgive people. But that doesn't mean letting them roll over you. Hatred will ruin you on the inside - as humans we gotta learn how to forgive and let things go for our own benefit.

Hippie! Mexican Hippie!

Know what you mean of course. Been trying to get folks to be forgiving towards Michael Vick.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Hippie! Mexican Hippie!

Know what you mean of course. Been trying to get folks to be forgiving towards Michael Vick.

You you mean dat black dog fighter. Or the quarter back.

 

[breakingcontact]

You you mean dat black dog fighter. Or the quarter back.

Yes

 

[Saltyag2010]

Hippie! Mexican Hippie!

Know what you mean of course. Been trying to get folks to be forgiving towards Michael Vick.

I agree. He's getting up in age and he was pretty good in Atlanta and in 2011 in philly. What did he do that was so bad?

 

[BG1960]

He tortured non-performing canines to death. God may forgive him for that, I won't.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Yes

the book says love the sinner but hate the sin.
if he asks he shall be forgiven. I have no I'll will towards him. Besides I'm on my 35th second chance

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

He tortured non-performing canines to death. God may forgive him for that, I won't.

I wish we could do that to politicians and government officials.

 

[breakingcontact]

the book says love the sinner but hate the sin.
if he asks he shall be forgiven. I have no I'll will towards him. Besides I'm on my 35th second chance

70 x 7

 

[jrbfishn]

the book says love the sinner but hate the sin.
if he asks he shall be forgiven. I have no I'll will towards him. Besides I'm on my 35th second chance

Only 35,,,, you're slow.


Sent by a idjit coffeeholic

 

[Saltyag2010]

He tortured non-performing canines to death. God may forgive him for that, I won't.

It's their fault. Winners don't get tortured

 

[Pilgrim]

I say we put Vick in a pit with all those "loser" dogs he tortured. Then lather him in steak juice and A1 and film the whole thing for YouTube. Hilarity will ensue...

 

[breakingcontact]

I say we put Vick in a pit with all those "loser" dogs he tortured. Then lather him in steak juice and A1 and film the whole thing for YouTube. Hilarity will ensue...

These would be ghost dogs?

 

[ROGER4314]

The thing that I remember most clearly about the Viet Nam war was that when I was attending a small University in Kansas, guys were being drafted right out of classes! Every week, there were more empty chairs.

We would ask "Where's John?".......answer? "Drafted!" I had to take up to 19 credit hours to keep my school deferment! That's 19 friggin' credit hours! Hell, 12-14 is a major load! My grades suffered but I earned my degree on schedule. Then the lottery came and my birthday came up at over #340!

I lost many friends who didn't make that cut and their memories are now part of "The Wall".

Then, contrast that to my younger sister who attended the University of Michigan (big bucks school). She never even KNEW anyone who was drafted! Poor people, minorities and people who had no political "stroke" went to Nam. I hated that shxt!

I took my fresh draft exemption and set out into the world of industry. My first job with a fresh Bachelors degree brought in $1.70/hour!

I knew that a lot of the previous posts were said in jest. Hell, I can take a razzin' better than most! It don't matter at all! It just seemed so friggin' ironic that I was seen as a peace & flower power wimp when I spent the whole first half of my life hurting people....and I LIKED it! Now, I want no part of it.

Please do me a favor. Go into my profile photo album and look at the "before and after" pictures. Look at the eyes as that's how I judge a man. I know what he's made of by looking at his eyes. In the early pictures, that bastard would hurt you and those pics were taken several years after becoming clean & sober!

Then contrast the old fart pictures and you'll not see any of that cruel bastard in them. The difference between those two sets of images resulted from the work of a Higher Power.

The point is...........If you're not happy with who you are, then you can change! It wasn't easy but that's what I did! Moving from place to place in the Gypsy life helped a lot. I could re-invent myself every time that I moved!

Thanks for the opportunity to write about this. I see the end of the trail coming and it's good to be able to relate how that worked in my life. Someone may need to read this. First................it starts with getting clean & sober!

No offense was taken. If I have offended you guys, let me know and I'll attempt to make that right.

It's a rainy day and I'm going to cook up some cornbread then make a 2 egg ham & cheese omelet. The two little puppies (Jake & Mike) and I will have a nice quiet day together!

Flash